Hi all,
Wanted to start a thread with the various 9070 XT waterblocks that people find or pre-waterblocked cards that start to pop up.
The only one I know of is the Alphacool ASRock Taichi OC block.
As people find them, would love to be able to update this post so that it can stay up to date and current. This will be useful to me as I would like to know my options before I put one of these in my system. Thanks for all your help!
Can you purchase this card already
Tomorrow! No idea where in the US, but I know that Overclockers UK has a fill list of 9070 (XT) gpus with prices ready for the release time to happen.
My bad was referring to the block … I was able to pre order with a 9-10 week delivery 
I did heard back from Alphacool that they will be making more blocks, they just need more time.
Unfortunately the Taichi has the 12V High Failure connector.
I haven’t seen any articles or videos talking about it’s implementation. If it’s done correctly, for the power draw, it would be fine. But we’ll have to wait and see.
I’m looking to water cool my GPU again after not doing it since the 580X.
Is it likely at all that a generic block or a wider selection will come out or will it be limited to specific models and I should grab a a Taichi when I go to Microcenter at lunch time?
why? does this card run hot enough? 300W does not seem like it would be worth it.
sapphire on their nitro also did this, but their other two versions have 2 8 pin. why do they do this?
I want to do an all watercooled rig this build is why I want to watercool my next GPU.
In the past I’d get thr PowerColor or Saphire cheapest version of the model and get a block eventually to complete the build.
This thread has me worried things have changed enough since the last all watercooled build I did to mean I need to be picky about the model I get.
Some of the OC cards pull 350W under load. And I also want to do replace my current card that’s in my loop.
X2 same
With how much hype and availability there is combined with the price increases and tariffs that are inbound for the US, I have a feeling I may hold off. Especially since we have only seen one block available. I will still update this list as people post blocks or if I find them though!
My main issue is that I have a 3090 and want to get off the Nvidia platform. But if availability is still an issue, maybe I will wait another two years or for my card to outright die.
For what it’s worth, that card only pulls like 300W, so the safety factor is automatically around 2, which is roughly what it would be for a PCIe 8-pin. This is purely because the card doesn’t pull anywhere near the power limit of the cable, so you end up with a higher, effective, safety factor.
I plan to water cool as well, I’m not picky about Nvidia or AMD. I’m still rocking a GTX 1080 (non-Ti). The reason to water cool, for me, is because i’m tired of the fan noise required to keep it < 70c. The coolers have gotten better, but none of them can do 70c with < 35db of noise. Water can. It’s less about it ‘making sense’ and more about that I’m in a place in my life where I no longer have to put up with things because I need to be efficient with my money. I can afford to splurge on problems that annoy me.
I have a water cooled rig already and I want to upgrade it, but I’ll have to wait for a block because the long cards won’t fit with my reservoir.
Alphacool saying 9-10 weeks is disappointing. I would have ordered a card and kit today, but I’ll have to wait. Hopefully stock is sustained.
Although can’t remember if it was Taichi, buildzoid made a video, looking at the pcb and stating ‘same problem as nvidia’(maybe a bit better)
It was the sapphire one!
Space. Waterblocks are much shorter than the air cooler radiators.